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Found 1 definition: somerset.

Pos: Noun

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun somerset has 2 senses

1. somerset(n = noun.location) - a county in southwestern England on the Bristol Channel;
is a kind of county
is a part of england

2. somerset(n = noun.act) flip, somersault, somersaulting, summersault, summerset - an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return;
is a kind of tumble
has particulars: flip-flop

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

somerset, n. [F. soubresaut a jump, leap, OF. soubresault, It. soprassalto an overleap, fr. L. supra over + saltus a leap, fr. salire to leap; or the French may be from Sp. sobresalto a sudden asault, a surprise. See Supra, and Salient.].

A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end. Donne. [1913 Webster]
"Now I'll only
Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset." [1913 Webster]

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Inversion

N inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion, contraposition, contrariety, reversal, turn of the tide, overturn, somersault, somerset, summerset, culbute, revulsion, pirouette, transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton, anastrophe, hysteron proteron, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis, metathesis, palindrome, pronation and supination, inverted, wrong side out, wrong side up, inside out, upside down, bottom upwards, keel upwards, supine, on one's head, topsy-turvy, sens dessus dessous, inverse, reverse, opposite, top heavy, inversely, hirdy-girdy, heels over head, head over heels.